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Word entry · 6 letters

furrow

Best crossword clue

"Plowed groove"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈfʌɹoʊ/Part of speech verb, nounSorted forruwStarts with FEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

Word origin

From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).

Used in a sentence

  • Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
  • The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.
  • When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.

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